Entries from LAist tagged with 'comcast'
February 20, 2008
Sony's Blu-ray high definition video disc won a contentious, expensive, and possibly over-hyped video format war reminiscent of the VHS v. Beta battles of yore. The "battle" for dominance of the next-generation DVD market was determined over past few weeks as major studios and big box retailers sided with Sony's Blu-ray, essentially shutting Toshiba's HD-DVD format out of the market. But who really wins here? The studios and retailers manage to force consumers to go......
Continue Reading "HD Format Wars: Why Toshiba's Loss ≠ Sony's Win"October 19, 2007
The Associated Press busted a big story today. In order to see if Comcast was indeed interfering with filesharing, the AP tested a big file on the Internet via the popular filesharing software BitTorrent, a digital copy of the most famous text in the world - the Holy Bible. Despite the fact that Comcast swears they don't cockblock web access, the AP found that two out of three times, the transfer was interfered by......
Continue Reading "Comcast Hates The Bible & Filesharing & They Lie?"